You are walking down the street with a friend of yours and you go next to a very smooth concrete wall.
Here is your chance to impress him by saying “That wall seems to be made by Tadao Ando.”
Your friend will look at you speechless and surprised by your knowledge.
Tadao Ando, a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. is one of the most fashionable architects all over the world.
He favors the “as-cast” method of concrete construction, he uses formworks to proportionate concrete on the size of Japanese nuptial beds and to give it a natural smooth finish, so “silky” that it seems even unreal.